People: Oct. 28, 1929

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium, arrived in Manhattan, was greeted by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and Owen D. Young. She went to stay with her longtime friend, Mrs.

Marie Mattingly Meloney, Editor of the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune. Later Mr. Young showed her through his General Electric Co. laboratories at Schnectady. Then Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady (copper, public utilities) took her in their private railroad car to Henry Ford's...

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